Jim Moran to Alhurra: Republicans won the midterms because a lot of Americans are racist

posted at 8:45 pm on January 26, 2011 by Allahpundit

Via the Right Scoop and Mark Tapscott of the Examiner. There’s a wrinkle here that you don’t usually find with most clips of Democrats embarrassing themselves in public — namely, a voiceover. I think Tapscott’s transcript of what Moran says is accurate (skip ahead to 3:00 for the key part) but I honestly can’t tell for sure. I’ll leave it to you guys to crank up the volume on your PCs and crowdsource it for accuracy in the comments:

“It [the Republican successes in the 2010 elections] happened for the same reason the Civil War happened in the United States. It happened because the Southern states, the slaveholding states, didn’t want to see a president who was opposed to slavery.

“In this case, I believe, a lot of people in the United States don’t want to be governed by an African-American, particularly one who is liberal, who wants to spend money and who wants to reach out to include everyone in our society….”

At the Standard, John McCormack politely notes that it’s difficult to square this reasoning with The One’s landslide win just two years before. True enough, but I’m less focused on that than on the media outlet he’s speaking to. Am I the only one who remembers Alhurra? It was founded in 2004 by — ta da — the U.S. government as a pro-American alternative to Al Jazeera in the Middle East. (The network acknowledges its U.S. financial backing on its “About” page.) It’s an Arab version of “Voice of America,” in other words, and needless to say, it hasn’t caught on. The pathetic punchline here is that, even on a network devoted to spreading American propaganda, this guy can’t resist tearing his fellow citizens down. Send the tape to Al Jazeera, Jim; maybe they’ll hire you as a full-time contributor after you retire.

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It [the Republican successes in the 2010 elections] happened for the same reason the Civil War happened in the United States. It happened because the Southern states, the slaveholding states, didn’t want to see a president who was opposed to slavery.

I have this argument with my family constantly. I don’t want to be governed by a DEMOCRAT. If Hilary had won the dem nomination I wouldn’t have voted for her either. If she were in the White House I would be trying just as hard to get her the hell out. It has nothing to do with his race, it is all about his ideology and his determination to ruin my country.

“In this case, I believe, a lot of people in the United States don’t want to be governed by an African-American, particularly one who is liberal, who wants to spend money and who wants to reach out to include overtax everyone in our society…

This type of reckless and Anti-American rhetoric to foreign media, particularly, is entirely unacceptable from ANYone who is employed in our government. As citizsens, we have a right to criticize our government but what this guy is doing — as do many on the Left — is lying and scurrilously damning the American people.

And the Democrats have nothing — NOTHING — to offer anyone. All they continue to harp away on is this “Republicans are racists, White people are racists (and doomed), the Right is racist…”

ALL the Left has is this beating of the dead horse of “racism”. Do any on the Left realize — ever realize — that they are, indeed, the actual racists among us? After all, look at their speech, look at their hostility based upon race, look at their lies about it.

Moran attends an ostensibly black Catholic parish which white liberal heretics have essentially taken over. Oh yeah, a real man of the people.

manwithblackhat on January 26, 2011 at 9:20 PM

And THAT, right there, is Moran revealing about himself that his behavior is guided BY his racist views. Anyone who selects a “church” based upon what the race is populating the attendance, is, indeed, motivated by race, is ‘reasoning’ along racist lines.

“In this case, I believe, a lot of people in the United States don’t want to be governed by an African-American, particularly one who is liberal, who wants to spend money and who wants to reach out to include everyone in our society….”

Bolded section is doublespeak for communism. That and the European socialist ideas is all that bothers people.

I’ll tell you what, I’ve never met anyone in my life, who expresses opinions like Jim Moran, that isn’t prejudiced, in one way or another. It’s like, let he who is without sin, cast the first stone. That’s all this guy does and it’s always about Republicans.

I know that Democrats have done more harm to black people than Republicans ever have and the reason they get away with it is because they’re always attacking and accusing Republicans of being racist, so no one will look at them.

Liberals are obsessed with hatred. It is ingrained in their very souls. The hypocritical part is that without racial hatred they could not get 90%+ of the black vote and thus be totally irrelevant. Liberals have always trashed our country on the international level. Now it starts at the top with Obama and filters down to the scum like Moran. It is parasitic how they feed off the American people.

I have this argument with my family constantly. I don’t want to be governed by a DEMOCRAT. If Hilary had won the dem nomination I wouldn’t have voted for her either. If she were in the White House I would be trying just as hard to get her the hell out.

ctmom on January 26, 2011 at 8:58 PM

In which case they’d be calling you a sexist, along with Moran and the rest of his ilk.

“It [the Republican successes in the 2010 elections] happened for the same reason the Civil War happened in the United States. It happened because the Southern states, the slaveholding states, didn’t want to see a president who was opposed to slavery.

I believe he has this exactly backwards. In 2010, voters opposed a president who was trying to impose slavery.